JAVID BUCK MAN- THE DICTTONARY OF ARTISTS
IN BRITAIN SINCE
ROTHENSTEIN
1947-51. Rossiter went on to lecture in fine art departiment of William
then
Bowyer, after his diploma did postgraduate work at
Bristol Polytechnic, 1960-83. In the latter year he formed Royal Academy Schools, 1972-5, with Peter Greenham and
Dalesford Studio. for personal tuition in art, an extension of his Margaret Green. Became a member ofl RBA in 1979, also showing
own studio. From the mid-1950s Rossiter showed in London and in the provinces.
the provinces. His autobiography, The Pendulum, was published in
1966, the book being linked to a retrospective show at Reading Eric ROWAN 1931- Painter, teacher and gallery director, born
Museum and Art Gallery. A tour of selected work organised by in Liverpool. He studied at the local College of Art, then at the
The Lincolnshire Association in 1969 toured the county. In 1970 Academy of Fine Arts, Florence, 1951-57. For two years ran a
he had his first solo show in London to coincide with publication gallery for the New Shakespeare Theatre Club which was exem-
of The Golden Chain, which won an Arts Council Award for cre- plary in showing the work of such artists as Paul Klee, Francis
ative prose. In 1980 Rossiter illustrated Elizabeth Jennings' poems Bacon and Josef Herman. After a year in Italy Rowan returned to
A Dream of Spring. Rossiter was elected RWA in 1964 and lived teach in Britain, including posts at Liverpool and Cardiff Colleges
at Litton, Somerset. Victoria & Albert Museum, Ashmolean of Art. Was a member of the 56 Group and also showed at Howard
Museum in Oxford and other public and private collections hold Roberts Gallery in Cardiff, Clark Gallery in New York and else-
his work.
where. Made a number of films, including one on Augustus
and Gwen John, in 1975, for BBC Television. CASW, National
Betty ROTHENSTEIN: see Duffy AYERS
Museum of Wales in Cardiff and other public galleries hold
his work.
Michael ROTHENSTEIN 1908-1993 Printmaker, painter,
maker of reliefs, designer and teacher, born in London, son of the Evadné ROWAN fl. from 1940s- Freelance painter, illust-
artist Sir William Rothenstein (pronounced Rohthenstein). He rator and printmaker, born in Warsash, Hampshire. She studied at
studied at Chelsea Polytechnic and Central School of Arts and Gloucester School of Arts and Crafts and Central School of Arts
Crafts, 1924-7. Had first one-man show at Matthiesen Gallery in and Crafts, teachers including Ernest Pullée, James Tucker and
1938 and during World War II participated in the Pilgrim Trust John Farleigh. She was elected a member of AIA in 1949 and the
Recording Britain project. In 1954 founded a graphic workshop in Society of Industrial Artists in 1952, later resigning from them
Great Bardfield, Essex, home to such artists as Edward Bawden when retired from professional work, which included extensive
and John Aldridge. Rothenstein won first prize in the Giles commissions from BBC, General Post Office, Penguin Books,
Bequest Competition for colour woodcuts and lino-cuts in 1954 Methuen, Rupert Hart-Davis and other publishers and publica-
and 1956. He went on to teach printmaking at Camberwell School tions. Exhibited with Senefelder Club. Lived for many years
of Art and was Art Fellow at Sheffield University in 1962. in London.
Rothenstein published a number of books, including Frontiers of
Printmaking, 1966, Relief Printing, 1970, Suns and Moons, 1972, Mark ROWBOTHAM 1959- Artist in various media who
and the folio Song of Songs, 1979. Showed in major London gal- studied at Epsom School of Art and Design. He showed at RI,
leries and had a retrospective at Stoke-on-Trent City Museum and ROI, NEAC, PS of which he was a member, and was included
Art Gallery, and touring, 1989-90. Tate Gallery, Victoria & Albert Thompson's Gallery, Aldeburgh, 10th Anniversary Exhibition,
Museum, British Museum and Museum of Modern Art in New 1993. He was married to the artist Sherree E Valentine-Daines and
York hold his work. Made Hon. RE and elected RA, 1983. lived in Ashtead, Surrey.
Rothenstein's daughter Anne was a painter. He lived at Stisted,
Braintree, Essex.
Annette ROWDON 1931- Sculptor in bronze, plaster, clay
and stone notable for portrait busts, and teacher, born in Beriin,
Pascal ROUSSON 1963- Creator of satirical pictures related to Germany, who grew up in America. She graduated in German lit-
the modern urban landscape, as in New Art in Scotland, Centre for erature from Bryn Mawr College, Pennsylvania. Then studied
Contemporary Arts, Glasgow, 1994. Rousson was born in Lyon, sculpture at Accademia di Belle Arti, Rome; having moved to
France, studying at the School of Fine Arts there, 1985-7, then at London attended Central School of Arts and Crafts, 1954-8; but
the School of Visual Arts, Geneva, 1987-91. Exhibitions included said that "the best training I received was in the marble workshops
Villa Arson, Nice, France, 1990; La Régie, Geneva, Switzerland and foundries in Pietrasanta, Italy." Rowdon held a residency at
1991; Answer Machines, Geneva, 1992; and in 1994 both Seagate Wilson College, Chambersburg, Pennsylvania, from 1978; was
Gallery, Dundee, where Rousson lived, and Collective Gallery, associate professor of art to Marlboro College students, Vermont,
Edinburgh.
1980-5; from 1985 did a teacher's certificate course at London
Polytechnic, teaching at Chelsea School of Art, Hammersmith
Brian ROUTH: see The KIPPER KIDS
Leisure Centre and in Italy and Austria. In 1983 Rowdon gained a
DAAD grant to work at Kunstlerhaus Bethanien Centre in Berlin.
David Paul ROWAN 1950- Artist in acrylic, born in Colne, In 1984 the Royal College ofMusic acquired Rowdon's bust of Sir
Lancashire, where he lived for a time, then in south London. David Willcocks; in 1986 Schiller National Museum, Marbach,
Studied at Maidstone College of Art, 1969-72, teachers including acquired a bust of the publisher Samuel Fischer; and in 1990 she


ROWNEY
completed a bust of the Crown Prince of Burma. Took part in worldwide, including painting the battlefields of the Falklands. In
many group shows internationally. Shared an exhibition at Ben Uri 1985 he joined a British and Royal Nepalese Army expedition in
Art Society, which holds her work, 1986, with another shared northeast Nepal, an area forbidden to foreigners, and undertook his
exhibition at Medici Fortress, Livorno, 1992.
first major climb, to 22,000 feet. A series of additional expeditions
involved climbing Mount Everest. Rowe's solo shows included a
Cliff ROWE 1904-1989 Prolific and versatile artist and lifelong series of exhibitions at Marine Society from 1977; Liverpool
book illustrator whose work was marked by strong draughts- Maritime Museum, 1985; Royal Geographical Society, 1988;
manship, vigorous design and careful pictorial organisation, his and The Osborne Studio Gallery from 1993. HRH The Duke of
underlying interests being social concerns and working situations. Edinburgh was among his patrons.
He was born and lived in London. Attended Wimbledon School of
Art, 1918-21, won a scholarship to the Royal College of Art, but Liz ROWE 1955- Painter and teacher, born in Portsmouth,
was dissatisfied by the teaching and left after a year; was Hampshire (around 1990 Rowe, a former transvestite, sought a
employed by an advertising firm for two years; then went self- gender change. Rowe's work sometimes contained items of
employed, to get more time for his own work. This reduced him clothing alluding to her life outside the studio). She studied at
"to drawing with boot polish on newspapers", and prompted him Wolverhampton Polytechnic and Reading University and eventu-
to question the economic basis of society. Rowe studied Socialist ally taught at Newcastle Polytechnic. Was artist-in-residence
literature, read the Communist Manifesto, and in 1932 went on an at Tyne Tees Television in 1984. Rowe's mixed shows included
exploratory holiday to the Soviet Union, where he stayed 18 Stowell's Trophy at RA, 1977; Hatton Gallery Summer Show,
months, designed book jackets and did commissioned work for the Newcastle, 1986; and the Newcastle Group exhibition The
Red Army. Back in London, Rowe, who was a long-term member Northern Lights, DLI Museum & Arts Centre, Durham, 1990.
of the Communist Party, with Misha Black and others launched Was a prizewinner in Tyne Tees Northern Open, 1985. Later solo
the AIA in 1933 (he left in the 1950s when it ceased to have a shows included Hang Ups, Northern Centre for Contemporary
political purpose). In the late 1930s, Rowe came to question the Art, Sunderland, 1987. Was commissioned to paint a ceil-
tenets of Socialist Realism, which "I believed to be too limited in ing at Theatre Royal, Newcastle upon Tyne, Tyneside, where
its theory and practice", and spent many years striving for a type she lived.
of art neither photographic nor abstract. Rowe did not exhibit
often, and in 1985 donated much of his work to date to galleries John N ROWLAND 1931- Painter and printmaker who was
and museums including the Science, London and National Railway born in Bradford, where he continued to live and studied at the
Museums, Leicester City Art Gallery and National Museum of School of Art. Exhibited RA and elsewhere.
Labour History (it gave him a solo show in 1995). The Tate
Gallery holds work and the Electrical Trades Union College his George ROWLETT 1941- Painter, born in Troon, Ayrshire.
General Strike and Tolpuddle Martyrs murals. Rowe was included Rowlett's landscapes and seascapes were singular in their bold
in the AIA touring exhibition, organised by the Museum of brush strokes, sweeps of the palette knife and thick impasto, cap-
Modern Art, Oxford, 1983, and in Fighting Spirits, with Peter Peri, turing the essence ofas scene. He studied at Grimsby School of Art,
Camden Arts Centre, 1987.
1960-2, Camberwell School of Art, 1962-5, and Royal Academy
Schools, 1965-8. At Camberwell he won the Samuel Jones
Jane ROWE 1919-1995 Painter in oil, full name Helen Fellowship, 1965-7, in 1966 gaining the David Murray Travelling
Josephine Rowe, born in Kettering, Northamptonshire. She Scholarship and Auerbach Criticism Prize. In 1967 a Silver Medal
began painting at Thamesside Institute in 1972 and notable for Painting, First Landseer Prize, Landseer Scholarship and
among her teachers were George Gault, Steve Shepherd and David Murray Travelling Scholarship followed. In 1984 Rowlett
Peter Clossick. Matthew Smith was cited as one influence. Rowe gained the Oppenheim-John Downes Memorial Trust Award.
said that her approach to painting was "totally uncomplicated; Rowlett showed widely, including RA, Camden Arts Centre,
I paint what is in front of me and, if I can communicate the Whitechapel Open and overseas. He had a solo show at Cleveland
absolute joy of colours and shapes of everyday objects, then my Bridge Gallery in 1989, in Bath, another at Albemarle Gallery,
work speaks for me." Showed with Blackheath Arts Society, 1990, and at Art Space Gallery, 1993. Grimsby Museum, Northern
South-East London Art Group, Sweet Waters Gallery, in France Arts and Cleveland Museum hold Rowlett's work. Worked in
and Germany. Had a first solo exhibition at Woodlands Art London and Deal, Kent.
Gallery, 1988, with a memorial retrospective there in 1995. Lived
in southeast London.
Margaret ROWNEY 1908- Painter and printmaker, born in
London, her father Walter Rowney, managing director of
Lincoln ROWE 1951- Artist and adventurer who studied draw- Rowney's, the artists' colourmen. Studied at St John's Wood Art
ing and painting at Duncan of Jordanstone College of Art, Dundee, School and Slade School of Fine Art, 1927-30, with Henry Tonks
having been born in Scotland and educated in the border country. In and Randolph Schwabe. Was a member of SWA, also exhibiting
1977 Rowe was asked by the Marine Society to become their sea- at RA, RE, elsewhere in London and solo abroad. Lived in Pinner,
going artist, creating a record of the Merchant Navy; he travelled Middlesex.